But hidden in those stats are these numbers: -10–15% of cases per year required hospitalization (i.e. 40 THOUSAND cases), for pneumonia, encephalitis, or severe dehydration -With a mortality rate of 0.1%, there were 300–500 deaths per year, mostly in children under 5. [3/6]

Among those 300K-400K cases per year, about 400 would suffer some kind of permanent neurological damage, particularly among the infants. This was the norm during the TV golden age, which pre-dates the age of universal vaccination. [4/6]

So that's why there's this sense of "no big deal" from that era: a combination of survivor bias, normalcy bias, empathy gap, and availability heuristic. (Google those terms if you're interested.) [5/6]

Bottom line: it's best for a population to AVOID getting infected with measles. Immunization is worth the effort, expense, and minute risk. [6/6]

Canada - now is the time to decide whether we are in or out. Having the world's top scientists, propelled economic benefit for the US. Europe is now standing up to attract them. Canada do we really care about innovation and economic well being, or do we just talk about it?

Ontario’s health care system is definitely not ready for this.

Taught my daughter’s science class about the thymus: how it looks huge at first & then “shrinks” But it’s a perspective trick because we actually grow around it Finally it really does regress but never quite vanishes Later: “Dad, the thymus is a metaphor for grief, right?”

Bradley Whitford talks ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ with Colbert. Colbert: “it’s eerily prescient this season because I understand in this season the Canadians turn on the U.S.” Whitford: “Do you know what an asshole you have to be to piss off the Canadians.” 😂😂😂

Going great… Basically, southern Alberta = measles exposure risk. Are they still trying to contact trace? Info here: albertahealthservices.ca/news/Page19022… Make sure you/ yours are up to date on vaccines: 10-20% of cases hospitalized usually. At best It’s nasty.

Yet another 'build a different/bigger warehouse' plan instead of dealing with the root cause: not enough in-patient beds, here, mental health beds. "If we had adequately resourced in-patient mental health beds...those who need them could be moved through any A&E quickly..."

When we found out diseases were in the water, we built sewers and cleaned the water. Now that we know many pandemic diseases are airborne? We have decided vibes and denial are good enough.

Having been burned by corporate journalistic cowardice, Collins decided to revive *The Onion*'s tradition of merciless, trenchant parody. 14/

He also revived *The Onion*'s tradition of showing up in the world as a printed artifact, spraying gallons of ink onto tons of vegetable pulp and shipping the result to mailboxes around the world (including mine): membership.theonion.com 15/

Collins sat down for a long interview with *Vanity Fair*'s Chris Murphy that is full of so many excellent moments and quips that I actually *cheered* aloud while reading it, more than once! vanityfair.com/hollywood/stor… 16/

A minority of Canadians forget that 154 million lives in the past 50 years were saved due to routine vaccination. That's 6 people saved every minute of every year. The majority saved - 101 million - were infants. Let's get back to basics. Vaccines save lives.

MondoAB It drives me nuts that people can't understand that the debacle our h/c system is in is 90% provincial gov's fault. They are the ones making the wrong choices. They are the ones wasting money and, they are the ones trying solutions that evidence points out don't work.

Special Constables would be able to carry guns…on campuses, on transit. Why is the government sneaking in this change? Why won’t they answer basics questions on the issue? Please watch 👇#onpoli #Bill10

💯 Fascists deserve and are invariably infuriated by satire.

5. If someone cuts down a tree for their view in Australia, government installs sign to block the view.

We are not going to stop until we get to the truth.